Conductor&#39;s valve for fluid-pressure brakes and signals.



0'. G. PARMBR. GONDUGTORS VALVE FOB. FLUID PRESSURE BRAKES AND SIGNALS.

Patented Dec.27, 1910.

-A.'PPLIOATION FILED MAR. 6, 1907.

Att'y.

I WENTOR ila ld CLYDE C. FARMEB, OF GHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNDR TO THE "WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE COMPANY, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, A COBPGRATION OF PENN- SYLVANIA.

oonnucron s vanvi:

Application filed March 8. 1907.

Specification of Letters Patent.

FOE FLUID-PRESSURE BRAKES AND SIGNALS,

("0 all whom may concern:

Be it known that I, CLYDE C. FARMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful .ln'iprovements in Conductors Valves for Fluid-Pressure Brakes and Signals, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that type of valve known as a conductors valve, used in connection with a fluid pressure brake or signaling system, whereby the flow of fluid through the system may be controlled from any part of a car or train of cars, to which such system may be, applied, in a manner to operate the brakes or a signal, and its objects are: to provide a conductors valve of the class described which may be operated from a near or distant point with more facility and certainty than prior devices; to provide a valve which'niay be more readily opened against the' pressure in the brake or signal system; to provide operating means for such valve which will exert greater power to open the valve at the beginning of its 'movement than immediately there after and a more rapid motion of the valve just after opening to procure prompt brake application; to provide a valve which in closing automatically,when released, will act more positively and freely; to provide means for holding the valve in its open position, and to generally improve upon the presentform of valve and provide a more ellicient and reliable construction of apparatus. These ob ects and other advantages which will hereinafter appear, I attain by means of the constrimtion illustrated in preferred form in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure l is a longitudinal vertical section through a C01](ll](tt()l"5 valve, embodying my improvements, the construction of the operating levers being such that the valve will be locked in its open position, and Fig, 2 is a similar view of a slightly modified form of the operating levers, which will permit the valve to automatically close when relGflSQ(1.' i

' In some forms of brakefand signal systems it is desirable to have a conductors valve,

,which when once thrown to the open or operative positionwill remain so until it is 'desiredto close the same, while 111 others a valve which will autonmtically close is to be preferred, it is also to he desired that such valve should open easily against the pressure in the system, and by reference tothe accompanying drawings it will be seen that I have designed a form of apparatus, which when slightly modified will work equally well under either of the above conditions.

My device consists primarily of a valve, casing 3, provided with inlet and outlet openings l and 5 respectively, and a valve seat 6 which may be of any preferred con struction, such for instance,- as that illustrated in Fig. 1, wherein the seat 6 is upon the inlet side, and has a valve 7 normally held in position thereon by means of a spring 8. The-valve 7 is provided with a stem 9, projecting through the casing 3', and into engagement with an intermediate lever 10, pivoted at one end to the. outside of the casing and having its other end in position 75 to be engaged by the short arm of an operating lever 11, also pivoted to the outside of the casing 3, but adapted to work at an :quproximately right angle to the lever 10.'

In order to insure a continuous contact be- 80 tween the valve stem 9 and the lever 10, the former projects up into an opcning'lO in the. latter and bears against the convex bottom of said opening, such construction being adapted to cause the lever 10 to bear directly down upon the valve 9 during the entire course of its movement. The outer end of the lever 10, which is acted upon by the lever 11, is preferably curved to facilitatc the operation of the parts as well as to permit of a more compact construction, although. said lever may if desired be made straight- Without departing from the nature of my invention. The movement of the lever 11 is regulated 90 by means of a stop 12,with which it is provided and which abuts against the lugs 13,:

in which said leverjs pivoted, when the lever is in its upright or operative position and the valve is open' The outer or long end of the lever 11 is adapted to be connected 'to a cord or other suitable'mechanism by which it may be operated from a distant point 1n the usual manner. i i y Y When, it is desired to-use a construction of valve which will remain in the open position,

the cam portion 11? 0% the lever ii, is flattened Where it engages the lever 10,and

when brought to the position indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1 it will remain so, and the valve will be "open until it is returned to its original position by hand. If it is desirable to have the "valve close as soon as the tension on the handle is released, the cam portion 11. oi' the lever 11 is extended as shown in Fig. 2 which prevents the lever 11 taking such locking position as shown in Fig. l, and will permit the spring 8 to close the valve and return the levers to their original position as soon as the lever 11 re leased.

Other advantages of the device will readily occur to those familiar with the art.

Having thus described my invention and illustrated its use, What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is the following: I

1. A conductors valve comprising a casing, a valve therein, an operating mechanism for said valve adapted to be operated from a distant point and adapted to exert its ma xinnnn power upon initial movement to open said valve.

2. Aeonduetofs valve-comprising a cas-.

ing. a valve thereiin an operating mechanism tor said valve adapted to be operated. from a distant point and having means for exerting its maximum force upon initial movement to open said valve and a positive step device for limiting the movement of said operating mechanism.

3. A eonductors valve comprising a (asing, a valve thereiin an operating mechanism adapted to be operated from a distant point and comprising a camming means adapted f to exert greatest power at the beginning of its movement, to open the valve and an intermediate lever interposed between said caimning means and the stem of the valve. p

4. A eond'uctors *alve coinpri-singa easing, a valve "therein, an operating mechanism its bearing surface flattened. to lock the valve signed my name in the presence ofthe two subscribed witnesses.

CLYDE 0. marine;

OLMs'rnAn, Down 7 

